and -sadly- the conclusion is: we DON'T have a functioning justice system... Per-i-od... (just to make sure: we have a SUPER-HIGH-functioning injustice system, IF YOU ARE THE STATE or 1%-er...)
the media is broken, the gummint is broken, the justice system is broken, and us 99% are broken and broke...
are we going to fix a broken system made immune to fixing by fixing a broken system which is immune to fixing by a broken system immune to fixing... ? ? ? ( ad infinitum )
in a related incident: got nailed by a driver making a left turn RIGHT FUCKING INTO ME, then that spun me around with another vehicle hitting me... not a good way to start the day... pretty truck is not so pretty now, only about 8 grand and two weeks and it will be pretty again...
(ironically, car dealership had sent a mailer the week before offering full sticker price for my two-year old truck... yes, they are that popular they can sell 2-3 year old trucks for MORE than new ones... they take advantage of the young and stupid good ole boys who have no/bad credit and can't get in a new truck, and charge them 3-5 thou more for a used one... as long as they get a monthly payment they can afford, they go for it...)
meanwhile, dealing with insurance company is annoying: agent was GREAT, company is a POS: got a message on my phone to call them (won't mention their name, but they run 10 billion commercials an hour) about them needing some info on the other drivers in the accident, blah blah blah... okay, thought I had reported everything i knew in the accident report, but i better get back to them ASAP... so i called the number listed, and it took me to a robo-ad for some discount card they were flogging... IMMEDIATELY, i am pissed off: i'm calling because you left a message (AND an email) that there was accident info you needed, and it turns out it was ALL ABOUT getting me to buy this stupid discount card, and had NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ACCIDENT... NOT ONLY does it ask me if i want this super deal, and i press 2, 'No', thinking that would be the end of it, and i would be connected to a claims clerk... no, connects me to ANOTHER robo-ad that SURELY i want to reconsider this generous offer and give me another chance to say 'yes', i say 'no', and it IMMEDIATELY says, well this line is only for people who accept this offer, and hangs up on me ! ! ! POS company, there was NO 'info' they needed, it was PURELY a marketing fishing expedition...
at first, okay, this was some kind of scam, someone had the public record and was fishing for a mark... but look it up, and NO, it IS the stupid fucking insurance company running the scam... 'cause, you know, when i've been traumatized by being hit by two vehicles and am worried about getting my vehicle repaired, etc, i REALLY want to be scammed by my insurance company to buy some stupid discount card instead of getting good service on my claim... fuckers... now, for the cherry on top... go to the website and send an email to bitch about how shitty it was for them to try and scam me like that, and i get a robo-response that -you guessed it- said 'thanks for your email regarding your accident claim, but we still need more info, please call...' yes, it was the scam number they had shuffled me off to previously which was the source of my complaint... *sigh* AND we are going to change our insurance company now, because they were such a-holes about that stuff...
since so many are de facto monopolies or colluding oligarchies, they GET AWAY WITH IT... fuckers, i hate them all...
so-o-o-o, i'm wondering if they go after the ten zillion military-themed video games, or is that simply good recruiting practice, so they'll ignore that ? ? ?
(and isn't that problematic: IF you go after one cohort for trademark traducing, don't you have to go after them all ?)
'a lot of gatekeepers have had a stranglehold on media and artists for-fucking-ever and gotten obscenely rich with little-to-no effort off the original works and artistry of creative human beans they take advantage of, and we *like* it that way ! ! !'
1. as mentioned numerous times, this idiotic practice of 'signing up' or making an 'account' for EVERY two-bit website in the universe is EXTREMELY tiresome... (how many dozens/hundreds have i been forced to sign up for, and NEVER went there again ? ) 2. when i got a disqus 'account', i was hoping it would alleviate this type of crap; but, evidently, i have to get a dozen disqus-like accounts, and STILL will be 'forced' to sign up at every site in the universe... 3. for non-critical sites/'accounts', i use a simple pattern: prefix + site/org name + suffix e.g. 57techdirt89 i simply have to 'remember' the prefix/suffix (57/89), then insert the site/org name in the middle, and i'm good to go... somebody cracks my 'account' at some non-critical website ? ? ? *yawn*
well, i'll just point out, all pendantic-like, that if you don't have transparency, you can't have accountability... in fact, it is a necessary requirement for accountability... that we 'know' *some* portion of the TPP (etc) is ONLY due to the efforts of whistleblowers or heroic crackers, not due to a *REAL* open and transparent process... and, yeah, fuck beta... (signed up for alt already, but who knows how that will turn out, dice go all trademark on 'em)
...that i saw a link to a talk by kevin smith wherein he discussed his very bizarre interactions with ... watched it, and smith pretty much calls out prince as being a world class whack job from heel to head... gee, who would have guessed that...
from what i've read on some hard corps nerd sites (like slashdot, okay, soft core nerd sites, too), the bitcoin miners have EXTREMELY customized rigs to optimize their 'mining', and that distributed 'mining' among botnets, etc is simply too slow and not generally worth the trouble...
now, i understand the concept that if you are 'stealing' CPU cycles from people 'for free', then i guess you don't care how inefficient it is; but -again- from what i've heard, it would simply be time better spent on other means of mining that are far more efficient...
just repeating what i've read of people FAR better versed in the ins-outs of the process...
Re: Re: Ah, at last the "Comment held for Moderation!" -- So Mike does censor.
actually, 'we' *are* 'all' against him, *NOW*...
i am THE most adamant and extreme defender of the true concept of free speech as you will find on these tubes, and *I* hate the lamer so much *I* WANT TO censor him...
as far as i'm concerned, he/she/it has forfeited all 'rights' by being SUCH a total tool nearly all the time...
the VERY FEW nuggets of semi-wisdom he/she/it OCCASIONALLY has are not crucial to the education of us all, and NOT WORTH THE ANNOYANCE of him being such a fucktard 99% of the time...
at some point, you just don't give a shit about an annoying child 'expressing themselves', and just want them to STFU...
Re: Re: Microsoft uses DRM sucessfully hundreds of millions of times.
1. microsoft is evil AND stoopid...
2. i had a recent experience where our DSL tubes went down (which was weird, 'cause MS troubleshooting/diagnostics said NOTHING was amiss, and control panel *said* i was connected to the inertnets, but we were not... neighbor who reported it, said ISP kept insisting it was on our end, then had to relent after a couple days... but even though we could not get a bit to go through the tubes, our 'puters *said* everything was 'okay', weird...), and since i couldn't bother people online, i went to play some solitaire...
well, in win8 (hate, Hate, HATE win8! ! ! more proof positive MS is eee-vil) it is ALWAYS TRYING to connect you to the MS walled garden, which i almost never do (even though the slimy fucks FORCED me to login with my MS 'account' when i up(read: down)graded to win8.1 hate, Hate, HATE win8.1 too! ! !), and kept on crashing and burning the stupid fucking solitaire game because it didn't like that we weren't 'connected'... POS s/w, POS company...
3. last point i've made before: it simply does not matter if the DRM is technically proficient or difficult to reverse engineer, i'm sure they really don't care... WHEN -as The They (tm) have done and will continue to make more draconian- they make messing with, reverse engineering, or simply DISCUSSING DRM hacks ILLEGAL, it don't matter if it is easy to break, they simply get you for THINKING about breaking it...
i'm not 'all for officer security', it is SUPPOSED TO BE ALL ABOUT CITIZEN 'security', NOT THEM: THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SERVING US, not the other way around... THEY *should be* 'scared' of US, not US of THEM...
1. kops are NOT killed on the job in ANY sort of huge numbers, that is a LIE... firefighters are KILLED on the job (not die from fire, etc) TWICE as much as donut eaters... 2. cabbies are KILLED on the job about 5-6 times the rate of kops... 3. retail clerks are KILLED on the job at a higher rate than piggies... 4. no, those over-stuffed, lazy, borderline personalities are NOT threatened inordinately on the job, THEY are the ones doing the threatening and killing... 5. thanks to the writer for pointing out what i was going to: why not just sit back in the office, watch the monitors, and issue citations by email to FUCKING EVERYONE... (oh, EXCEPT kops and kop-friends, i'm betting...) 6. as goons for Empire, the praetorian guard gets away with MURDER, mere citizens can't look squinty-eyed at Empire without getting jacked up...
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so, not wanting to give the scum any clicky-clicks...
On the post: Competitor Takes Over Verizon's West Virginia Landlines; Complaints Drop Nearly 70%
Re: Re: Sorry but no wins here.
filthy 1%-er ! ! !
On the post: How A Grand Jury's Indictment Is Indistinguishable From Being Found Guilty
Re: ...and ? ? ?
and -sadly- the conclusion is: we DON'T have a functioning justice system...
Per-i-od...
(just to make sure: we have a SUPER-HIGH-functioning injustice system, IF YOU ARE THE STATE or 1%-er...)
the media is broken,
the gummint is broken,
the justice system is broken,
and us 99% are broken and broke...
are we going to fix a broken system made immune to fixing by fixing a broken system which is immune to fixing by a broken system immune to fixing... ? ? ?
( ad infinitum )
On the post: Widow Sues LA Sheriff's Dept. After Her 80-Year-Old Husband Is Killed During A Search For Drugs That Weren't Actually There
Re: Re: You Buried the Lede
Sub-section 2011.a Compliant
EYES ONLY
...
1st Officer: I thought *you* had the meth to plant.
2nd Officer: No, you said, you had enough in your locker, you could take some.
1st Officer: Well, yeah, but I thought you said you already had some to drop.l
2nd Officer: I did. Then after I hit it, I didn't.
1st Officer: Oh.
1st Officer: Crap.
On the post: Lululemon: If You Can't Beat Your Customers, Ban Your Customers
Re: companies hate customers
in a related incident: got nailed by a driver making a left turn RIGHT FUCKING INTO ME, then that spun me around with another vehicle hitting me...
not a good way to start the day...
pretty truck is not so pretty now, only about 8 grand and two weeks and it will be pretty again...
(ironically, car dealership had sent a mailer the week before offering full sticker price for my two-year old truck... yes, they are that popular they can sell 2-3 year old trucks for MORE than new ones... they take advantage of the young and stupid good ole boys who have no/bad credit and can't get in a new truck, and charge them 3-5 thou more for a used one... as long as they get a monthly payment they can afford, they go for it...)
meanwhile, dealing with insurance company is annoying: agent was GREAT, company is a POS: got a message on my phone to call them (won't mention their name, but they run 10 billion commercials an hour) about them needing some info on the other drivers in the accident, blah blah blah...
okay, thought I had reported everything i knew in the accident report, but i better get back to them ASAP...
so i called the number listed, and it took me to a robo-ad for some discount card they were flogging...
IMMEDIATELY, i am pissed off: i'm calling because you left a message (AND an email) that there was accident info you needed, and it turns out it was ALL ABOUT getting me to buy this stupid discount card, and had NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ACCIDENT...
NOT ONLY does it ask me if i want this super deal, and i press 2, 'No', thinking that would be the end of it, and i would be connected to a claims clerk...
no, connects me to ANOTHER robo-ad that SURELY i want to reconsider this generous offer and give me another chance to say 'yes', i say 'no', and it IMMEDIATELY says, well this line is only for people who accept this offer, and hangs up on me ! ! !
POS company, there was NO 'info' they needed, it was PURELY a marketing fishing expedition...
at first, okay, this was some kind of scam, someone had the public record and was fishing for a mark... but look it up, and NO, it IS the stupid fucking insurance company running the scam... 'cause, you know, when i've been traumatized by being hit by two vehicles and am worried about getting my vehicle repaired, etc, i REALLY want to be scammed by my insurance company to buy some stupid discount card instead of getting good service on my claim...
fuckers...
now, for the cherry on top...
go to the website and send an email to bitch about how shitty it was for them to try and scam me like that, and i get a robo-response that -you guessed it- said 'thanks for your email regarding your accident claim, but we still need more info, please call...'
yes, it was the scam number they had shuffled me off to previously which was the source of my complaint...
*sigh*
AND we are going to change our insurance company now, because they were such a-holes about that stuff...
since so many are de facto monopolies or colluding oligarchies, they GET AWAY WITH IT...
fuckers, i hate them all...
On the post: US Military Looking To Trademark Everything
Re:
so-o-o-o, i'm wondering if they go after the ten zillion military-themed video games, or is that simply good recruiting practice, so they'll ignore that ? ? ?
(and isn't that problematic: IF you go after one cohort for trademark traducing, don't you have to go after them all ?)
On the post: Surprise: ASCAP and Music Labels Colluded To Screw Pandora
shorter tywebb...
On the post: You Want People To Have Strong Passwords? What Are You, Some Kind Of Communist?
Re: His childhood must have been a fun one...
1. as mentioned numerous times, this idiotic practice of 'signing up' or making an 'account' for EVERY two-bit website in the universe is EXTREMELY tiresome...
(how many dozens/hundreds have i been forced to sign up for, and NEVER went there again ? )
2. when i got a disqus 'account', i was hoping it would alleviate this type of crap; but, evidently, i have to get a dozen disqus-like accounts, and STILL will be 'forced' to sign up at every site in the universe...
3. for non-critical sites/'accounts', i use a simple pattern: prefix + site/org name + suffix
e.g. 57techdirt89
i simply have to 'remember' the prefix/suffix (57/89), then insert the site/org name in the middle, and i'm good to go...
somebody cracks my 'account' at some non-critical website ? ? ?
*yawn*
On the post: USTR Finally Realizing Its All Encompassing Secrecy May Be A Problem, Calls Frantic Meeting For All 'Cleared' Lobbyists
Re:
in fact, it is a necessary requirement for accountability...
that we 'know' *some* portion of the TPP (etc) is ONLY due to the efforts of whistleblowers or heroic crackers, not due to a *REAL* open and transparent process...
and, yeah, fuck beta...
(signed up for alt already, but who knows how that will turn out, dice go all trademark on 'em)
On the post: USTR Finally Realizing Its All Encompassing Secrecy May Be A Problem, Calls Frantic Meeting For All 'Cleared' Lobbyists
Re: Re: Re:
(since korporations are uber-citizens, and money = speech...)
The They (tm) only understand 'might makes right'; they could give a shit about inertnet 'activism' and such: torches and pitchforks they get...
On the post: After Suing Fans Sharing Bootlegs, Prince Says No One Sues Fans, Bootlegs Are Great & People Should Share Music
was it here ? ? ?
watched it, and smith pretty much calls out prince as being a world class whack job from heel to head...
gee, who would have guessed that...
On the post: Court Says FBI Agent's Wrong Checkmark Put Woman On No Fly List, Barred Her From The US For 10 Years
Re: I hope
which then proceeds to get her put on the no-fly list...
that's some catch, that catch 22 ! ! !
On the post: When Facebook's Terms Of Service Decide What Kind Of 'Speech' Is Okay, Activists Get Silenced
Re: Just another reason...
resistance is futile, submit to the Borg ! ! !
On the post: When Facebook's Terms Of Service Decide What Kind Of 'Speech' Is Okay, Activists Get Silenced
Re:
On the post: New Jersey's Attorney General Freaks Out About Proof-Of-Concept Bitcoin Mining App; Issues Ridiculous Subpoena
not sure this is viable...
now, i understand the concept that if you are 'stealing' CPU cycles from people 'for free', then i guess you don't care how inefficient it is; but -again- from what i've heard, it would simply be time better spent on other means of mining that are far more efficient...
just repeating what i've read of people FAR better versed in the ins-outs of the process...
On the post: DRM Is The Right To Make Up Your Own Copyright Laws
Re: Re: Ah, at last the "Comment held for Moderation!" -- So Mike does censor.
i am THE most adamant and extreme defender of the true concept of free speech as you will find on these tubes, and *I* hate the lamer so much *I* WANT TO censor him...
as far as i'm concerned, he/she/it has forfeited all 'rights' by being SUCH a total tool nearly all the time...
the VERY FEW nuggets of semi-wisdom he/she/it OCCASIONALLY has are not crucial to the education of us all, and NOT WORTH THE ANNOYANCE of him being such a fucktard 99% of the time...
at some point, you just don't give a shit about an annoying child 'expressing themselves', and just want them to STFU...
On the post: How The Copyright Industry Made Your Computer Less Safe
Re: Re: Microsoft uses DRM sucessfully hundreds of millions of times.
2. i had a recent experience where our DSL tubes went down (which was weird, 'cause MS troubleshooting/diagnostics said NOTHING was amiss, and control panel *said* i was connected to the inertnets, but we were not... neighbor who reported it, said ISP kept insisting it was on our end, then had to relent after a couple days... but even though we could not get a bit to go through the tubes, our 'puters *said* everything was 'okay', weird...), and since i couldn't bother people online, i went to play some solitaire...
well, in win8 (hate, Hate, HATE win8! ! ! more proof positive MS is eee-vil) it is ALWAYS TRYING to connect you to the MS walled garden, which i almost never do (even though the slimy fucks FORCED me to login with my MS 'account' when i up(read: down)graded to win8.1 hate, Hate, HATE win8.1 too! ! !), and kept on crashing and burning the stupid fucking solitaire game because it didn't like that we weren't 'connected'...
POS s/w, POS company...
3. last point i've made before: it simply does not matter if the DRM is technically proficient or difficult to reverse engineer, i'm sure they really don't care... WHEN -as The They (tm) have done and will continue to make more draconian- they make messing with, reverse engineering, or simply DISCUSSING DRM hacks ILLEGAL, it don't matter if it is easy to break, they simply get you for THINKING about breaking it...
welcome to prison planet...
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i agree...
(just like our constitutional rights)
On the post: Former Cop Proposes Law That Would Allow Officers To Ticket You Without Ever Leaving The 'Safety' Of Their Vehicles
Re: Re: Re:
THEY *should be* 'scared' of US, not US of THEM...
On the post: Former Cop Proposes Law That Would Allow Officers To Ticket You Without Ever Leaving The 'Safety' Of Their Vehicles
Re: Can't stand the heat?
1. kops are NOT killed on the job in ANY sort of huge numbers, that is a LIE... firefighters are KILLED on the job (not die from fire, etc) TWICE as much as donut eaters...
2. cabbies are KILLED on the job about 5-6 times the rate of kops...
3. retail clerks are KILLED on the job at a higher rate than piggies...
4. no, those over-stuffed, lazy, borderline personalities are NOT threatened inordinately on the job, THEY are the ones doing the threatening and killing...
5. thanks to the writer for pointing out what i was going to: why not just sit back in the office, watch the monitors, and issue citations by email to FUCKING EVERYONE... (oh, EXCEPT kops and kop-friends, i'm betting...)
6. as goons for Empire, the praetorian guard gets away with MURDER, mere citizens can't look squinty-eyed at Empire without getting jacked up...
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